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Grey Literature

A guide for navigating additional unpublished works in comprehensive evidence syntheses (systematic reviews, scoping reviews, and integrative reviews).

References

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Farace, D.J. (1998). Foreword. In Third international conference on grey literature: Perspectives on the design and transfer of scientific and technical information, 13-14 November 1997 in Luxembourg. GL'97 Conference Proceedings, p. iii. Accessed from http://greyguide.isti.cnr.it/attachments/category/30/GL97_first.pdf.

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Farrah K. & Mierzwinski-Urban, M. (2019). Almost half of references in reports on new and emerging nondrug health technologies are grey literature. Journal of the Medical Library Association107(1), 43-48. https://www.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2019.539.

Godin, K., Stapleton, J., Kirkpatrick, S.I., Hanning, R.M., & Leatherdale, S.T. (2015). Applying systematic review search methods to the grey literature: A case study examining guidelines for school-based breakfast programs in Canada. Systematic Reviews, 4, 138. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-015-0125-0.

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Woods, S., Phillips, K., & Dudash, A. (2020). Grey literature citations in top nursing journals: A bibliometric study. Journal of the Medical Library Association108(2), 262–269. https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2020.760.